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hung to cushion impact, injuries have occurred, he noted, adding that a file in the office is thick with accident reports filed by teachers on mishaps in physical education classes and extra-curricular sports.
“We have a bunch of winners at RCHS,” said the principal, pointing t"» the performances of the Pop Quiz team, the math team and the basketball team and to recent high scores on achievement tests and reading competition with Culpeper schools. “I urge you to show our kids that you think they’re number one,” he asked the supervisors.
For the past 10 years, RCHS guidance offices have been two storage closets in the library, with aides relegated to tables shared with students in the library itself, said guidance counselor Jim Futrell. And even those offices must be given up for parent, student and teacher conferences and meetings between students and college representatives or social workers, he added.
School Board chairman Beverly Massie acknowledged that buildings dc not teach children. “But adequate facilities will give our teachers the chance to enhance their teaching abilities.” >
Addressing the slight downward curve in enrollment over the past 10 years, Mrs. Massie noted that a significant percentage of that drop may be attributed to the exodus of children to the two private schools in the county. “We can’t predict what future circumstances may bring,” she said, maintaining that those students may return to the public schools. “Don’t be misled by the enrollment figures,” she advised the supervisors.
Every year, state and federal aid for education above what was anticipated in the school budget has been received by the county, the School Board chairman noted. But since that money was not appropriated by the supervisors for the schools, it goes into the general fund, Mrs. Massie said. If that unanticipated revenue had been put instead in a separate account, “we could have made the first payment on the literary loan with ease,” she said, asking that in the future, money earmarked for education be spent for education.
Ever since the high school opened, students and teachers have had to make the best of inadequate facilities, charged Sharon Kilpatrick. Acknowledging the opposition to building a new gymnasium, she pointed out that adding a new gym is “the only way to free up space to upgrade the core facilities” at the high school.
The project can’t be taken apart to provide just for the academic portion, Mrs. Kilpatrick insisted. She
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